Tag: function as a service
Evolving from FaaS to a Truly Serverless Paradigm
True serverless helps alleviate some of the administration and management issues related to FaaS Creating distributed applications demands a thorough understanding of cloud infrastructures and architectures. Engineers must address complex operational issues, ...
How FaaS Is Disrupting Workflows: New CSP vs. CDN Services
Neil Glazebrook | | CDN services, cloud service providers, content delivery network, CSP, edge computing, FaaS, function as a serviceFunction as a Service (FaaS), the popular incarnation of serverless computing, along with containers, has played an important role in the migration from monolithic application architectures to those based on microservices. Its ...
FaaS is Key to DevOps Efficiency
When AWS announced Lambda–a serverless Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) technology offering–the idea of encapsulating a specific task into a function that resides in the cloud was introduced into mainstream access. Now, with the rising ...
The Limiting Factors of Microservices Also Apply to FaaS
In enterprise development and deployment, the pattern is easy to detect. A big monolithic application is targeted for re-architecting as a microservices architecture. People excited about microservices get together and break up ...
Should You Go ‘Serverless’? The Pros and Cons
Asaf Yigal | | architectures, BaaS, backend as a service, cloud, FaaS, function as a service, IaaS, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, PaaS, platform-as-a-service, serverlessThe popularity of the “serverless” term started to grow when Amazon launched AWS Lambda in 2014. Ever since, we’ve seen the term exponentially grow in use and reference, with more vendors entering ...